Megyn Kelly Says Why JD Vance WON'T RUN For President in 2028 | Billy Bush

On J.D., I have to say, like, I am not as sure as you are that he's actually going to run J.D. Vance. I think J.D. has a fourth child now, a baby. And I think he had some real reservations about running like genuine, not the bullshit kind where you just say it. But like, I don't think his wife loves Washington. I don't think she's thrilled about raising their four kids there. It's a terrible town as you know. And he's extremely busy and you don't get less busy when you get elevated to the presidency. He's going to miss all four children's childhood. And I think it does matter to him and I know it matters to her. Not to mention Usha had a very thriving career as a lawyer. She was actually the more successful lawyer between the two of them. Well, they met at Yale Law School. But I mean, she was the one who clerked for the US Supreme Court for Chief Justice John Roberts and others like Usha had a crushing legal career going on. I think she'd probably enjoy getting back to that and having her own life. And JD Vance could go off, he could make millions right now as the former VP. He doesn't have to. Take on all the nonsense. He can run later. He's young. He's young. He can do this later, for sure. He's like 41 years old. So I'm just not as sure as you are about, well, yes, Marco. But I also do think, Billy, that speaking of Reverend Tucker. I think something's bubbling with the Tucker, MTG, Thomas Massey, Joe Kent wing of the Republican Party, the black- No, I love Tucker, but I'll say it publicly. Please, is there ever a chance that right center gets a voice again, that the Republican Party returns to what it was, the one I grew up in and around? No, no. There isn't. It's dead and it's not coming back. I mean, Peggy Noonan had a great piece about this in the journal last week. So we just go back and forth between hard right and hard left? No, it's from the ashes that the Republican Party is in today, must arise a phoenix. And that requires newness. You cannot go back. The Republican Party of Ronald Reagan's era. Good win. Good win. Yes, true America first. I agree. Well, that's what that party, that group of people I just mentioned, would tell you they stand for. And yes, they're meeting and what you need on Team Right. And I like Marco Rubio and I do think you can't rule him out. And I love J.D. too. But I'm just saying what that group would have credibility saying that almost nobody else would is we can't be bought and paid for. No one owns us. We actually will get to Washington and clean out, drain the swamp. We will not be owned by special interests. We will not grift off of the presidency and the American people. We really will not start any additional wars in the Middle East or elsewhere. We do care. It's a weird version of republicanism versus weird in that it doesn't look like Trump's version. It doesn't look like Reagan's version or W's version. We do care about populism. We care about the working class and how the fat cats in Silicon Valley and so on are getting fatter and the working class is getting poorer and poorer. One of their main issues from MTG to Tucker has been to talk about credit card debt and how incredibly oppressive it is and And why people are even bothering to pay it. They care about certain things on that U-shaped, the horseshoe shape that sort of you have the Democrats here and the Republicans here and that some of them are merging in a way that they could actually, that kind of a message could win with the general electorate. I think Republicans are being silly to count this out. The question is whether they could get On the ballot if they run third party, and if they can't, whether they could take over the existing Republican Party. And so for them last night was a good result, Billy, because that Republican Party effectively died last night. The other person I have to make a comment on is I had paid zero attention to Mississippi because of course, like everybody else, I thought it would be as red as the ribbons behind me. But that one right now is too close to call. And the more I look at this, This guy, Colon, who's taking on the Republican. The more I like him, I have to say, his whole shtick down there has been so reasonable. There's a video on his social media right now of him going to a MAGA rope line. People were lined up to see Trump. And he, he's a black man in Mississippi, is walking up to all these Trump voters saying, can I ask you what matters to you? Why are you here? What's important to you? And he's talking to the vets, he's talking to working class. He seemed to be able to sort of speak their language, empathize with them and their problems. He was a very talented retail politician. He ripped on his opponent who does not seem very talented at all. There's a debate clip of her saying, let people eat other protein when they were talking about the price of beef. He made a very effective ad out of it like other protein and you have all these folks in Mississippi saying, How about we just find another senator? So this guy could actually pull it out and become an African-American senator from Mississippi. And I think he, too, will be much more moderate, Given as of right now, they are like less than 100 votes apart. It's unbelievable. But the head. Yeah. Yeah. Wow, it is. 95.6% of expected votes at this moment and 48.9 for each. It is. They're counting the provisional ballots. Everybody thinks the provisional ballot- Forget about Texas and not electing a statewide Democrat in 32 years or whatever it is. This would be a bigger headline in Mississippi that this guy becomes Senator. Absolutely. And I mean, let's not forget the Republicans held on to Florida by the skin of their teeth. Byron Donald's almost went down, notwithstanding the 1.5 million vote advantage the Republicans amassed under Ron DeSantis. Same in the Senate. Look, the Republican Party is in ashes today. That's what's true. That's what's real. And the only goal should be to reflect and rebuild something new and better and stronger and less beholden to One man. And they're going to have to find charismatic figures who have deeply held beliefs in order to do it. The 10-year period of being able to rely on daddy to get you over the hump is over. Trump's sway is over, the glow around Trump is over, and their ability to ride his coattails to victory is over. It's time to put your big boy pants on, come up with some ideas of your own, some leaders of tomorrow, and regroup the way parties have had to do for decades now. It's been done many times before, they can still win in 28 if they manage to get their Get their ---- together starting today. And I'm here for it. I have to say it. Megan, thank you so much. You put it perfectly there. The Megyn Kelly show. Megan is a young upstart here. She was just beginning in the business and she's doing just such a great job. Thank you. Thanks so much. Founder. Hit subscribe on Megyn Kelly, because your voice matters. I love it. Thank you so much. Good to see you, Kelly. My imaginary viewer is Madge. She lives in Iowa. She works all day. She doesn't stay up on the politics the way you and I do. I don't think Madge is paying He's paying attention to the fact that Trump struck this deal with Russia to try to lower gas prices artificially so that he could win the midterms, right? Like that's really what happened there. But I do think Madge is feeling the pain from Trump's economic policies, from his tariffs, from that Iran war. And she's looking for someone to blame. And she knows exactly who it is. She understands it was President Trump who implemented those policies and the Republicans who didn't stand up to him. Megan, I just got a very clear picture that you actually sit in meetings with Steve Krakauer, your producer and all the different people that work on the show. And you say, well, what would Madge think here? Madge is actually a person in your ranks, isn't it? I gotta think about mine. For years, that is like, you look into the lens and you're speaking to darkness. That's who's in there for me. I know her well. I know what she's interested in. I know what she's got no tolerance for. You have to have that person who you're programming for. And look, I want to say one other thing. I think Madge, And anybody who's been paying attention understands that it was Joe Biden who got us into this economic jam. He's the one who had inflation soar to almost double digits, who had no idea how to manage an economy, who stopped the oil and drilling and all that. But Trump ran saying he will fix it. That's what it said all over the arenas. And not only did he not fix, he exacerbated. And now he won't take any accountability. But at the same time, Trump was not fixing it. He was getting richer and richer. And those around him, the Alina Haba thing, $50 million to be some fake company's general counsel. Please, people know a grift when they see it. Oh, God. Jared Kushner and Ivanka making millions and millions of dollars. Jared's in trouble. He's in trouble. Like, I mean, I love Don Jr. and Eric, and they swear that everything they've done is above board, but they've gotten very, very rich during the Trump presidency. But it's inarguable that their access is every has, you know, if not 80% to do with it, 100. There's no, you know, they're, I'm sure they're great businessmen, but. The American people don't like this. We didn't like it when Hunter Biden did it and they don't want it when the Trump children do it. And Trump himself has gotten richer than anybody who has crypto schemes and so on. And the juxtaposition against that versus Madge and how she still cannot take a damn vacation. She cannot afford her health care. She's living paycheck to paycheck. And what the Trump messaging has been for the past eight months is You'll love it. Enjoy it. You're welcome. We're making more money than God. Who? Who exactly? You know, the tariffs, we're making so much money. The tariffs have been largely shut down. But how did that help Madge? She saw nothing. What she saw was actually penalties that were inflicted on American agriculture, thanks to Trump's tariffs. And then they were exacerbated by the fertilizer problem coming out of the Strait of Hormuz, another thing that Trump did by choice. So there's an arrogance, a contempt almost, that seemed to be felt by the administration toward the people with the least power. And they had their say yesterday saying, you know what, Maybe you can't actually shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and get away with it. Maybe that we could forgive, but not being able to pay our children's lunch bills, we cannot.